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The lynching of 19 year old Michael Donald happened in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1981 by United Klans of America (UKA) members Henry Hays, James Knowles and others. Kidnapping and murder were not capital offenses, so in order to make Hays eligible for the death penalty, state prosecutors argued that Hays’s theft of a dollar from Donald turned the crime into murder in the course of a robbery––a crime punishable by death. Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, brought a civil suit for wrongful death against the UKA in 1987. A jury awarded her damages of $7 million, which bankrupted the organization. This set a precedent for civil legal action for damages against other racist hate groups.
Seattle, December 12, 1984 — The massive FBI manhunt last weekend that ended in a fiery gun battle on a wooded, rural island north of here has unveiled what federal prosecutors call a scheme by a group of white supremacists to overthrow the government. The showdown began early Friday morning when more than 60 FBI agents swept through the pastures and woods of Whidbey Island, a 50-mile-long body north of Seattle, and surrounded three cabins on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound. Seven of the people named in the indictments are serving prison terms for crimes committed in the name of a racist revolution. The Federal authorities said they had taken into custody.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. During a short-lived alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice. In 2002 Al-Amin was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he did not commit. Despite numerous appeals, protests, petitions, calls for retrial and a videotaped confession, the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to decline these appeals as recently as October 2021.
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Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
The Green Book, in full The Negro Motorist Green Book, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, or The Travelers’ Green Book, travel guide published (1936–67) during the segregation era in the United States that identified businesses that would accept African American customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), a Black postman who lived in the Harlem section of New York City, the Green Book listed a variety of businesses—from restaurants and hotels to beauty salons and drugstores—that were necessary to make travel comfortable and safe for African Americans in the period before passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. The suicide letter was part of the FBI's COINTELPRO operation against King and other Black civil rights organizers.
On March 8, 1971, an activist group called the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized a local office of the FBI in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole classified documents. Part of those documents revealed a secret FBI operation called COINTELPRO. Those documents were later sent to newspapers and members of the United States Congress. During the Church Committee hearings and investigations in 1975, a copy of the "suicide letter" was discovered in the work files of William C. Sullivan, deputy FBI director.He has been suggested as its author.Once the surveillance tapes of King were publicly revealed, Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) sought to have tapes gained by wiretaps destroyed in a lawsuit. Their request was denied by United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge John Lewis Smith Jr. He ordered all tapes sealed until the year 2027 and placed into the National Archives and Records Administration.